A longitudinal study of early reading development: Letter-sound knowledge, phoneme awareness and RAN, but not letter-sound integration, predict variations in …

FJ Clayton, G West, C Sears, C Hulme… - Scientific Studies of …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
It is now widely accepted that phonological language skills are a critical foundation for
learning to read (decode). This longitudinal study investigated the predictive relationship …

How learning to read changes the listening brain

L Romanovska, M Bonte - Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Reading acquisition reorganizes existing brain networks for speech and visual processing to
form novel audio-visual language representations. This requires substantial cortical …

Contributions of letter-speech sound learning and visual print tuning to reading improvement: evidence from brain potential and dyslexia training studies

G Fraga González, G Žarić, J Tijms, M Bonte… - Brain sciences, 2017 - mdpi.com
We use a neurocognitive perspective to discuss the contribution of learning letter-speech
sound (L-SS) associations and visual specialization in the initial phases of reading in …

Development of print-speech integration in the brain of beginning readers with varying reading skills

F Wang, II Karipidis, G Pleisch… - Frontiers in human …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Learning print-speech sound correspondences is a crucial step at the beginning of reading
acquisition and often impaired in children with developmental dyslexia. Despite increasing …

[HTML][HTML] Auditory attention influences trajectories of symbol–speech sound learning in children with and without dyslexia

G Guerra, J Tijms, A Tierney, A Vaessen, F Dick… - Journal of Experimental …, 2024 - Elsevier
The acquisition of letter–speech sound correspondences is a fundamental process
underlying reading development, one that could be influenced by several linguistic and …

[HTML][HTML] Grapheme-phoneme learning in an unknown orthography: A study in typical reading and dyslexic children

JM Law, A De Vos, J Vanderauwera, J Wouters… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
In this study, we examined the learning of new grapheme-phoneme correspondences in
individuals with and without dyslexia. Additionally, we investigated the relation between …

Letter and speech sound association in emerging readers with familial risk of dyslexia

J Plewko, K Chyl, Ł Bola, M Łuniewska… - Frontiers in Human …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
In alphabetic scripts, learning letter-sound (LS) association (ie, letter knowledge) is a strong
predictor of later reading skills. LS integration is related to left superior temporal cortex (STC) …

[HTML][HTML] Cortical responses to letters and ambiguous speech vary with reading skills in dyslexic and typically reading children

L Romanovska, R Janssen, M Bonte - NeuroImage: Clinical, 2021 - Elsevier
One of the proposed issues underlying reading difficulties in dyslexia is insufficiently
automatized letter-speech sound associations. In the current fMRI experiment, we employ …

An audiovisual integration deficit underlies reading failure in nontransparent writing systems: an fMRI study of Chinese children with dyslexia

Y Yang, YH Yang, J Li, M Xu, HY Bi - Journal of Neurolinguistics, 2020 - Elsevier
Establishing the associations between speech sounds and visual scripts is an essential step
for reading acquisition. Audiovisual integration deficits have been proposed to be a cause of …

The influence of temporal asynchrony on character-speech integration in Chinese children with and without dyslexia: an ERP study

YC Du, YZ Li, L Qin, HY Bi - Brain and Language, 2022 - Elsevier
Dyslexic readers have been reported to show abnormal temporal acuity and multisensory
integration deficiency. Here, we investigated the influence of temporal intervals on Chinese …